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Coronavirus News is a section dedicated to the new coronavirus that is causing an epidemic in China and fast spreading globally. The strain of coronavirus called Covid-19 or also commonly called the Wuhan coronavirus is genetically more potent and faster spreading than the SARS coronavirus. Currently teams are working to develop a new vaccine for this new coronavirus while other teams are trying t...
Source: Thailand Medical News  Jan 30, 2020  5 years ago
Khaosod , Thairath and other Thai media are reporting  that Thailand’s Prime Minister HE General Prayut Chan O Cha had developed fever after visiting the Suvarnbhumi Airport yesterday and that he has been advised by doctors to rest and take off from official duties while he recuperates. the media said that officials downplayed the situation and and also confirmed that the prime min...
Source: Thailand Medical News  Jan 30, 2020  5 years ago
The World Health Organisation (WHO) is likely to declare a State Of Global Health Emergency before next week, once all evacuations of foreign citizens are out from Wuhan and governments worldwide make necessary preparations as the Global Health Emergency status would have dire consequences on global travel and traffic as many border closures will be enforced along with local stringent measures in ...
Source: Thailand Medical News  Jan 29, 2020  5 years ago
Singapore has announced three more cases with the 2019-nCoV coronavirus bringing the total to 10 while there are more than 70 suspected cases that are awaiting test results. Close to two hundred people are under quarantine for having being in contact with the infected and suspected cases.   Australia also has new cases bring the total to 7.   Canada now has two more confirmed cases besid...
Source  Jan 29, 2020  5 years ago
China Health Authorities announced this evening that the number of individuals that are in a severe critical condition as a result of the coronavirus have now rapidly increased in the last 24 hours. The current number of such patients stands as 1,252 patients as of 1700 hours (Beijing time)   Interesting Data About Chinese Travellers Who Went Overseas From December 2019 till January 23rd 2020...
Source: Thailand Medical News  Jan 29, 2020  5 years ago
The UAE Ministry of Health and Prevention, MoHAP, has announced the first case of the new coronavirus in the UAE in members of a family arriving from the Chinese city of Wuhan.   In a press statement issued on Wednesday, the ministry added that "the health condition of those infected are stable and they are currently under medical observation."   The Health authorities refuse...
Source: Thailand Medical News  Jan 29, 2020  5 years ago
The death from the 2019-nCoV virus epidemic in China has now risen to 132 with more confirmed infected cases materializing (confirm infected means those that have had the test to confirm that they are carrying the coronavirus while more than 147,420 patients are displaying symptoms all over China but have yet to have the test done as test kits are currently in scarcity. All new deaths originated f...
Source: Thailand Medical News  Jan 28, 2020  5 years ago
The Permanent Secretary From The Ministry Of Public Health, Thailand, Dr. Sukhum Kanchanapimai has just announced that 6 more cases of individuals have been confirmed to be infected with the new 2019-nCov virus from China. Of the six, 5 were a family from Hebei that came to Thailand for a more than a week now and initially never had any symptoms when they entered Thailand. Another also a Chinese n...
Source: Thailand Medical News  Jan 28, 2020  5 years ago
Sri Lanka and Germany has officially announced that both countries now have one case each of individuals infected with the new 2019-nCoV virus while Sri Lanka has another 17 individuals under observation while Germany has about 6 more under observation.   The  number of coronavirus infected cases internationally stands as :Thailand (8 cases), Hong Kong (8 cases), United States (5 ca...
Source: Thailand Medical News  Jan 27, 2020  5 years ago
Officials  from Wuhan Municipal Health Commission has finally revealed that the reason for the sometimes  ‘ambiguous’ and also unreliable data was due to the fact that all the hospitals in the area and also elsewhere in Hubei and all over China does not have enough test kits for the 2019-nCoV virus. Initially there were only two companies  in China that  were licens...
Source: Thailand Medical News  Jan 27, 2020  5 years ago
China health authorities in Wuhan as of 4.30pm, Bangkok time released figures showing the death toll is now 91, with one new death in the province of Hainan (an 80 year old woman) and the rest in Hubei. The number of infected has risen to 2874 with many new cases emerging in Beijing, Shanghai and Chongqing. The authorities said that 426 individuals were in critical condition while more than 32,175...
Source: Thailand Medical News  Jan 27, 2020  5 years ago
China Health authorities initially said in a Monday morning statement that the death toll from the new coronavirus (2019-nCoV) has risen to 80 but at 7.45am (Bangkok time), Wuhan City officials revised the figure to 83. All new deaths were only from the Hubei province and affected cities there and that apparently there were no new deaths reported in other provinces in China. The number infected ha...
Source: Thailand Medical News  Jan 26, 2020  5 years ago
The China health authorities as of 9pm Bangkok time announced that the total death toll is only 58 while the numbers infected is a mere 2147. (the figures released by the health authorities do no tally with actual happening in hospitals all over the affected cities!) Bodies piling up at a hospital in Wuhan A Chinese doctor at Wuhan General Hospital speaking on conditions of anonymity told Thail...
Source: Thailand Medical News  Jan 26, 2020  5 years ago
Since the outbreak of SARS in 2002, there was initially numerous studies and research done to find a cure for the SARS Coronavirus.  Most of the research at that time was initiated by researchers from China and also Hong Kong and subsequently as a result of certain breakthroughs; additional research was carried out in countries in Europe and the US. Unfortunately, the enthusiasm for most of ...
Source: Thailand Medical News  Jan 26, 2020  5 years ago
As of Sunday, 8am Bangkok time, Chinese health officials released information saying that the death toll as a result of the 2019-nCoV virus (or Wuhan Virus) is now 56 while the number infected is 1975, of which 324 individuals are in severe critical condition. However, based on observations by two of Thailand Medical News ground staff in Wuhan and Beijing, the figures do not make any sense. Yest...
Source: Thailand Medical News  Jan 25, 2020  5 years ago
18 cities In China now In lockdown affecting 56 million people, death toll now 45 and numbers infected have risen to almost 1,500. A ghastly scene form the 1918 Flu Pandemic   China has now expanded the lockdown to cover a total of 18 cities affecting 57 million people with more cities coming under lockdown the next few days. It has also declared that the country is in a state of emergency ...
Source: Thailand Medical News  Jan 25, 2020  5 years ago
The  2019-nCoV virus that is  rapidly spreading in China and nearby countries seems to trigger symptoms similar to those seen in the severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (SARS) coronavirus outbreak in 2003, two new studies show. The first clinical study was published on Jan. 24 in The Lancet journal, these are the first clinical studies conducted on patients struc...
Source : Thailand Medical News  Jan 25, 2020  5 years ago
Official figures on Saturday morning from Chinese health authorities are that 41 people have so far died from the new coronavirus strain in China while 1,287 people are infected although the numbers in state hospitals all over China are showing a different scenario. France has reported three cases of individuals infected with the 2019-nCoV virus while a second case has also been reported in the ...
Source: Thailand Medical News  Jan 24, 2020  5 years ago
13 Cities in China are now on lockdown involving a population of about 35 million people. The cities include Wuhan, Ezhou, Huanggang,  Chibi, Xiantao, Zhijiang, Qianjiang, Huangshi, Xianning and Yichang, HuangZhou, Yangxin and Xiushui. More cities are expected to be placed in lockdown over the weekened. So far as of 5pm (Bangkok Time) today, 31 people have died from the disease including t...
Source:Thailand Medical News  Jan 24, 2020  5 years ago
Virus Spreading Globally While WHO Still Dragging New cases of individuals being infected with China’s 2019-nCoV virus are emerging in countries like Vietnam, and Singapore. To date so far the virus has emerged in Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Macau, Hong Kong, Thailand, US and Mexico. In the UK, fourteen cases are being investigated. Many are also concerned about the Philippines where the healthca...
Source: Thailand Medical News  Jan 23, 2020  5 years ago
The situation in China is now getting worrisome with more cities are on lockdown. Initially Wuhan with a population of 11 million was placed on lockdown. Now  Huangggang with a population of 7.5 million and Ezhou with a population of I million is also being placed in lockdown.  Speculations  are that certain parts of Shanghai , Shenzhen and even Beijing will be next. Chinese Army ...
Source: Thailand Medical News  Jan 23, 2020  5 years ago
The new virus in China that is currently the centre of global attention is called the 2019-nCo V virus, the name given by the WHO or The World  Health Organisation. A Typical Coronavirus   The virus belongs to a class of viruses called coronaviruses. Coronaviruses belong to the subfamily Coronavirinae in the family Coronaviridae, in the order Nidovirales. Coronaviru...
Source: Thailand Medical News  Jan 23, 2020  5 years ago
Often, emerging viral infections from bird flu to Ebola to Zika infections, pose major threats to global public health, and understanding their origins can help investigators design defensive strategies against future outbreaks.  A recent study provides important insights on the potential origins of the most recent outbreak of viral pneumonia in China, which started in the middle of Decemb...
Source: Thailand Medical News  Jan 23, 2020  5 years ago
The number of deaths in China as a result of the new coronavirus is fast increasing by the hour and so has the number being infected. According to Chinese officials the number has now jumped to 17 deaths with hundreds more in critical conditions and the number of infected is rising exponentially. The Chinese government is also imposing a “defacto city shutdown and quarantine”. Wuhan...
Source: Thailand Medical News  Jan 22, 2020  5 years ago
China reported on Wednesday that more than 450 people infected across country, as US and Macao report first cases.   The current death toll from a new pneumonia-like virus originating in China rose to nine on Wednesday, with more than 450 people affected across the country. Meanwhile, newly confirmed cases in the U.S. and Macao underscored concerns over how the coronavirus was spreading ahead...
Source: Thailand Medical News  Jan 21, 2020  5 years ago
According to Chinese health authrorities, the number of people in China infected by a new SARS-like virus jumped to 291 on Tuesday. Since the last 24 hours, there has been nearly 80 new confirmed cases of the virus that has so far killed six people, with over 900 still under medical observation, said the National Health Commission. The recent confirmed cases are mostly in Hubei provi...
Source: Thailand Medical News  Jan 18, 2020  5 years ago
The real number of people infected by a mystery SARS-like virus that has killed two people in China is likely to be thousands more than officially reported, medical researchers have said. The breaking news comes as Chinese health authorities said on Saturday that they have discovered four more cases of pneumonia following an outbreak of what is believed to be a new coronavirus strain....
Source: Thailand Medical News  Jan 18, 2020  5 years ago
Health authorities in US will begin screening passengers Friday arriving from a Chinese city at the heart of a mysterious SARS-linked virus, officials said, after an outbreak that has stricken dozens claimed a second life. More confirmed cases meanwhile have now been reported outside China, two in Thailand, one in Japan, one in Korea, 5 in Singapore, lots more in Hong Kong and Taiwan even as he...
Source: Thailand Medical News  Jan 16, 2020  5 years ago
Health authorities in Japan disclosed on Thursday morning that a male patient treated for pneumonia after returning from China has tested positive for the new coronavirus identified as a possible cause of an outbreak in the Chinese city of Wuhan. Studenst in Japan taking precautions in wake of the new viral pneumonia outbreak in China The male patient developed a fever and cough on Jan. 3 while...
Source: Thailand Medical News  Jan 15, 2020  5 years ago
Chinese officials said Wednesday that the possibility that a new virus in central China could spread between humans cannot be ruled out, though the risk of transmission at the moment appears to be low. Health surveillance officer use temperature scanner to monitor passengers arriving at the Hong Kong International airport . Fifty-nine people in the city of Wuhan have received a preliminary diag...
Source: Thailand Medical News  Jan 11, 2020  5 years ago
Health authorities in China on Saturday officially announced that a 61-year-old man had become the first person to die from viral pneumonia believed caused by a new virus from the same family as SARS, which claimed hundreds of lives more than a decade ago. Fifty-nine people with pneumonia-like symptoms have so far been diagnosed with the new virus in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, ...
Source: Thailand Medical News  Jan 09, 2020  5 years ago
Health authorities in China have announced that the mysterious pneumonia outbreak that struck 59 people is caused by a new strain of virus from the same family as SARS, which killed hundreds of people more than a decade ago.   Medical scientist Dr Xu Jianguo told the Thailand Medical News that experts had "preliminarily determined" a new type of coronavirus was behind the outbreak, ...
Source: Thailand Medical News  Jan 08, 2020  5 years ago
Health authorities in South Korea has put a 36-year-old Chinese woman under isolated treatment amid concerns that she brought back a form of viral pneumonia that has sickened dozens in mainland China and Hong Kong in recent weeks. The South Korea Centers of Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday said that the woman, who was diagnosed with viral pneumonia on Tuesday following two business t...
Source: Thailand Medical News  Jan 06, 2020  5 years ago
Health authorities in China on Sunday said a mysterious viral pneumonia outbreak that has affected 59 people was not the flu-like virus SARS that killed hundreds more than a decade ago. The pneumonia-like infection was first reported last week in Wuhan, a central Chinese city with a population of over 11 million leading to online speculation about a resurgence of the highly contagious SARS viru...
Source: Thailand Medical News   Jan 04, 2020  5 years ago
Authorities in Hong Kong activated a newly created "serious response" level Saturday as fears spread about a mysterious infectious disease that may have been brought back by visitors from  mainland China. Five possible cases have been reported in Hong Kong of a mysterious viral pneumonia that has also infected at least 44 people in Wuhan, an inland city west of Shanghai and about...
Source: Thailand Medical News  Jan 03, 2020  5 years ago
Health authorities in China on Friday confirmed more cases of a mysterious viral pneumonia that has sparked fears about a resurgence of SARS, the flu-like virus that killed hundreds of people more than a decade ago. The total 44 cases, up from the initial 27 announced Tuesday, include 11 "severe cases," health authorities in the central Chinese city of Wuhan said in a statemen...

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